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title: Progressive web apps (PWAs)
slug: Web/Progressive_web_apps

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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are web apps that use service workers, manifests, and other web-platform features in combination with {{glossary("progressive enhancement")}} to give users an experience on par with native apps.

PWAs provide a number of advantages to users — including being installable, progressively enhanced, responsively designed, re-engageable, linkable, discoverable, network independent, and secure.

PWA how-to guides and other documentation

These introductory materials and step-by-step guides walk you through key aspects of building PWAs:

• Introduction to progressive web apps

• Progressive web app structure and structural overview

• Understanding the building blocks of responsive design

• How to make PWAs work offline (using service workers)

• How to make PWAs installable, enable "add to home screen", and further details on installing PWAs

• How to make PWAs "re-engageable" (using the Notifications API and Push API)

• How to enable progressive loading

• How to build "mobile first" PWAs

• Using service workers

• Using client-side storage, IndexedDB, and the Web Storage API

• Using the Notifications API and the Push API

See also

• Progressive Web Apps landing page and check list on web.dev

• Progressive Web Apps: Everything You Need To Know

• Progressive Web Apps: Escaping Tabs Without Losing Our Soul

• Instant Loading Web Apps with An Application Shell Architecture

• Workbox — set of libraries to power a "production-ready" service worker for your PWA

• Lighthouse — web-app auditing tool that includes PWA-auditing features

• localForage — localStorage-like async storage, to improve your PWA's offline experience

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